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Viewing the criminal trial as a baseball game is among the most useful of tasks - except where the fans (a.k.a, juries) have been ousted in favor of allowing judges to be both referee and jury.

Access to justice used to be so simple: one team against another, a judge as ref, and the jury as fans who insure fairness (as well as popularity).

For prosecutors and criminal law, the door to the courthouse is, in theory, always open - unless, by corruption, it is shut. No prosecutor worth his salt should have to ask a court or a judge (the ref) what game is being played upon having the door to the courthouse open.